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To amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to prohibit the Council of the District of Columbia from enacting any law to permit euthanasia and assisted suicide in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Sponsored By: Representative Barrett, Tom [R-MI-7]
Introduced
Summary
This bill would bar the District of Columbia from legalizing euthanasia or assisted suicide. It would also repeal the District's Death With Dignity Act and forbid the Council from enacting laws that would allow or reduce penalties for assisted-suicide activities covered by the federal Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction Act.
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- Residents: People in the District who might seek medically assisted death would not get legal access through local law.
- D.C. Council: The Council would be prohibited from passing any act, resolution, rule, regulation, or guidance that permits those practices.
- Health care providers and families: Doctors, caregivers, or others could not be authorized by local law to carry out assisted dying or have penalties for those activities reduced.
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Limits on physician-assisted death in D.C.
If enacted, this bill would repeal the District of Columbia's Death With Dignity Act of 2016. It would also stop the D.C. Council from passing any law, rule, or guidance that allows or reduces penalties for assisted suicide as described in the federal Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction Act (42 U.S.C. 14402). If enacted, patients in D.C. would no longer be able to rely on the local Death With Dignity statute to obtain physician-assisted death. Health care providers in D.C. would lose that local legal authority. No effective date is specified in the text provided.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Barrett, Tom [R-MI-7]
MI • R
Cosponsors
Rep. Crawford, Eric A. "Rick" [R-AR-1]
AR • R
Sponsored 1/22/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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